Deuteronomy 6:25
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
25 This is our justice before the Lord, our God: to observe carefully this whole commandment he has enjoined on us.”
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Exodus 22:25-26
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
25 If you take your neighbor’s cloak as a pledge, you shall return it to him before sunset; 26 for this is his only covering; it is the cloak for his body. What will he sleep in? If he cries out to me, I will listen; for I am compassionate.(A)
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Amos 2:8
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
8 Upon garments taken in pledge
they recline beside any altar.[a](A)
Wine at treasury expense
they drink in their temples.
Footnotes
- 2:8 Upon garments…any altar: creditors kept the garments taken as pledges from the poor instead of returning them to their owners before nightfall as the law commanded (Ex 22:25; cf. Dt 24:12). Wine…in their temples: lavish feasts for the rich, serving the finest wines in great abundance (see 6:4–7) and funded by the treasuries of local temples (e.g., at Dan and Bethel). The Hebrew in this verse is difficult. Another possible translation would be: “And the wine of those who have been fined / they drink in the house of their god.”
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